“Growing up I wasn’t allowed to watch, like, ‘Seinfeld’ and ‘The Simpsons’ and a lot of things that sort of inform Lampoon writers’ sensibility. But I was allowed to watch ‘SNL’ if I stayed up late enough. And so, like, Maya Rudolph and, you know, Kenan Thompson and all those people meant a lot to me. And so the discussion definitely made me think more about representation and what it means in comedy,” she said.

She added that the lack of diversity is off the screen, too.

“As a writer, I think we pay a lot of attention to the performative aspect of comedy, but as far as the number of performers go, there’s way more gender and race equality in performance of comedy than there has ever been in writing,” she explained. “Like, no one is paying attention to the fact that, like, there are absolutely, like, no people of color writing for – and, like, shows – a lot of shows that are predominately black don’t have any writers of color in the writers room. And to me, that’s insane, like, it’s 2013. And so those are sort of things that I get more riled up about.”